Project Progress

According to CoinDesk, Phantom hired three former Ventuals team members—Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia, and Aris Samad—on July 1 to strengthen its trading and data team. The trio previously launched OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures markets on Hyperliquid. Ventuals announced earlier this month that it

According to The Block, ENS co-founder Nick Johnson vetoed the Security Council renewal proposal on July 1 with 3.26 million ENS tokens, representing 80% of votes cast, causing the executable vote to fail with an 82% rejection rate. The proposal aimed to extend the Security Council's term by two

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson addressed governance structure, growth strategy, and community unity issues within the Cardano ecosystem in recent statements. Hoskinson called for a return to unity, empathy, and productive conversations, stating his goal is to refocus the community on solving

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson outlined recent challenges within the ecosystem and recalled ADA's historical price movement from $0.04 to $3 between 2017 and 2021. Hoskinson stated the community needs to return to unity and productive discussions, prioritizing clarified growth strategy,

Ethereum Name Service co-founder Nick Johnson blocked the renewal of the ENS DAO Security Council with approximately 80% of votes cast in an executable onchain vote that closes July 5 at 8:59 PM. Johnson voted against the measure despite an earlier Snapshot vote passing, citing concerns that

According to The Block, Ethereum Name Service (ENS) co-founder Nick Johnson on June 30 blocked the ENS DAO's Security Council renewal vote with approximately 80% of votes cast so far. The onchain executable vote currently stands at 82% "no" and is set to close on July 5 at 8:59 PM UTC. Johnson,

The Cardano Foundation issued a warning to Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) regarding passive governance participation through automated abstention. The Foundation stated that SPOs defaulting to 'auto-abstaining' creates an accountability gap that weakens Voltaire era governance. The warning addresses a

According to Crypto Briefing and the Cardano Foundation, the Cardano Foundation warned that Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) automatically defaulting to abstention creates an accountability gap that weakens Voltaire era governance. The warning specifically targets automated abstention without proposal re

Blockchain platform Flare scheduled a community governance vote from July 6 to July 13 to deploy Flare Confidential Compute on its Songbird canary network, following a notice period that began June 29. The deployment represents the first live implementation of the Flare 2.0 architecture outlined in

According to Flare's official announcement, the blockchain platform scheduled a community governance vote from July 6 to July 13 to deploy Flare Confidential Compute (FCC) on its Songbird canary network. The voting notice period began on June 29. The deployment will introduce programmable

RWA Global Inc. has entered into an advisory agreement with Golden Dolphin Trading L.L.C. to support the tokenization of approximately $300 million in real-world assets tied to China's new-energy mobility sector. The UAE-domiciled Golden Dolphin focuses on new-energy mobility infrastructure and

According to BlockBeats, Pump.fun discontinued support for Tokenized Agent (tokenized AI Agent) token issuance on July 1. The feature will no longer be available for new token launches, though previously activated projects remain unaffected. The platform cited community feedback about excessive

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated on June 26 that Ripple processes roughly $16 trillion in annual payments and clearing activity across acquired businesses, with digital assets accounting for "close to zero percent" of that volume. The figure represents combined throughput from acquisitions

According to BlockBeats, Autheo launched its mainnet on June 30 after five years of development, introducing a decentralized coordination layer for native interoperability between traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI agents. The public testnet accumulated 1.81 million wallet addresses,

According to BlockBeats, Auvin Chain officially launched its mainnet on June 30. The AI-focused public blockchain aims to address limitations for AI Agents (intelligent agents) in traditional finance, including lack of on-chain identity, payment limits, and trusted execution environments. Auvin Cha

Ripple is expanding its influence across Asia as central banks, regulators, and major financial institutions accelerate adoption of blockchain-based payment infrastructure. The company's regulatory engagement and institutional partnerships have positioned it as a significant player in the region's d

According to an official announcement, OKX launched OKX.AI on June 30, a decentralized platform enabling AI Agents to post and accept tasks, process payments, leave reviews, and conduct arbitration. OKX founder and CEO Star stated on X: "The future belongs not only to companies with the most

According to BlockBeats, today Privy, Stripe's wallet infrastructure platform, launched support for consuming assets stored in DeFi protocols. Users can authorize Stripe to withdraw stablecoins from DeFi protocols for payment settlement. Developers can build payment cards powered by this

According to official announcement, Taiko network has resumed operations with no user asset losses. The cross-chain bridge has completed repairs and restored assets to full 1:1 parity with corresponding Ethereum assets. Network functions are operating normally, and users can resume transfers,

According to Foresight News, stablecoin protocol USD.AI and DeFi protocol Fluid have signed a $100 million liquidity agreement. Fluid will provide and manage deep liquidity for sUSDai through its Liquidity-as-a-Service (LaaS) program using its own capital, requiring no assets from USD.AI. The two